Ex-BBC broadcasting office returns to its roots and reopens as a luxury hotel


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Inheriting a property’s history is one way to allure guests, especially when it once housed a BCC hub and hunting lodge for European royalty.

Bought by the BBC in 1939 to function as an emergency broadcasting centre, Wood Norton reopens this month as a luxury hotel. Located in Worcestershire, a few miles from the Cotswolds and Stratford-upon-Avon, the site was bought by the BBC in 1939 to a